<div dir="ltr"><div>What's the purpose of sending this to the GPCA-SGA-VOTES list during a voting discussion, other than to affect the endorsement or non-endorsement of Josh Jones? </div><div><br></div><div>It just seems to me that this conversation would be far more appropriate in a more transparent setting such as the GPCA Forum if anyone finds the conduct truly troubling, or out of bounds for the party.  </div><div><br></div><div>If you wish for his campaign to simply change the title, did you attempt to have this discussion one on one with the Jones campaign?  If so, what was their response?</div><div><br></div><div>Did you make any attempts to resolve this issue with the Jones campaign prior to this email?</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, this type of intra-party discussion where we're not working on lifting each other up is the type of thing that turns me away from the Green party structure.  It doesn't affect my affinity for the party itself as the party's values are what brought me here. </div><div><br></div><div>I think it's a HUGE WASTE OF TIME for candidates to spend their time fighting in emails when there's a much bigger fight to be had out there, especially during the frigging Election season.  </div><div><br></div><div>I hope you can all put these sorts of differences aside and realize we're all on the same team and that our time can be much more effective if we work together against the forces of neoliberalism instead of picking on each other over campaigning style.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Colt</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Genevieve Marcus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:genevieve.marcus@gmail.com" target="_blank">genevieve.marcus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Apparently, some people don't see it as a joke.  Perhaps the TV host should say something at the end to clarify this.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Genevieve Marcus<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Victoria Ashley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victronix01@gmail.com" target="_blank">victronix01@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">>><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>I could not support a candidate taking this approach to fundraising</span><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">It's a joke, they are highlighting the core issue of our party of taking no corporate donations.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Victoria Ashley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victronix01@gmail.com" target="_blank">victronix01@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I loved it!  Especially the comment at the comment about Monsanto and Chevron.<div><br></div><div>I think this is a great use of humor and creativity to address corporate control of politicians.</div><span class="m_-7665104224624589109m_-100716638493725976HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- Victoria</div></font></span></div><div class="m_-7665104224624589109m_-100716638493725976HOEnZb"><div class="m_-7665104224624589109m_-100716638493725976h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Jeff Lebow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlebow@socal.rr.com" target="_blank">jlebow@socal.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Is this real or a hatchet job by Green opponents? If it is real, it is really poor judgement and is quite disturbing. I could not support a candidate taking this approach to fundraising. It’s just wrong. The fair thing would be for the candidate himself to explain whether this is real or why he took this extreme action. <div>Jeff Lebow</div><div>OC Greens <br><br><div id="m_-7665104224624589109m_-100716638493725976m_-241151713012495470m_-7367779920997397191AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="m_-7665104224624589109m_-100716638493725976m_-241151713012495470h5"><div><br>On Mar 4, 2018, at 10:33 PM, Angelica Duenas <<a href="mailto:angelica@aduenas.org" target="_blank">angelica@aduenas.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">


















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Dear SGA delegates</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">I am very disturbed by the Green Party Sex Tape video (</span></span></span><a style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">) created and posted by Gubernatorial candidate Josh Jones. I
find the video offensive and an example of extremely poor judgment by someone
seeking to represent our party as a candidate for our state’s highest office.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">I was first introduced face to face with the Green Party at
the August 2016 Green Party national convention in Houston, which I attended as
an interested observer, after being turned off by the Democratic Party (as a
Berniecrat delegate at the Democratic National Convention a week earlier.)</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">At the GPUS convention, I met David Cobb, Laura Wells, Mike
Feinstein, Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka, Cornel West (when things looked like he
might Go Green) and Luis Rodriguez (the GPCA's 2014 Gubernatorial candidate).
Based upon those interactions, I was impressed by the Green Party, effectively
going Green the following month. Since then, I have learned a lot about the
Green Party and its inner workings. I love how there is a high value on
internal democracy. And I love the GPCA and GPUS platforms – solid.</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">But I have to say that if I would have come across this Josh
Jones Sex Tape video in 2016 prior to attending the Green Party convention, I
would have not given the Green Party a chance at all. The concept and content
is immature and damaging to our party.  A more thoughtful treatment could
have been a great PSA moment.  Instead it is an embarrassment, plain and
simple.</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
<br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">Given this, for anyone seeking our party’s endorsement, I
think the video should be deleted from YouTube. But at a minimum, if this
embarrassment is to remain on-line, the use of the words “Green Party” should
be removed from the video's title. No one in our party has the right to post
something like that, misrepresenting our party’s name in that manner.</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">Angelica Dueñas</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px"><br></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px"><br></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px"><br></span></span></span></p>-- <br><div class="m_-7665104224624589109m_-100716638493725976m_-241151713012495470m_-7367779920997397191gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Angelica M. Duenas, M.A. </div>

<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em>GPLAC Councilmember</em></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em>GYG Delegate</em></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em>GPCA CC Member</em></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em>GPUS Alternate Delegate</em></div>

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